ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,298, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Methods and systems for analyzing a central nervous system based on brainstem structural characteristics" was invented by Darin T. Okuda (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some methods of analyzing one or more sections of a central nervous system of a patient comprise, for each of the section(s), from data the includes one or more 3D representations of the section, segmenting each of the 3D representation(s) into ventral and dorsal portions and, for at least one of the 3D representation(s), determining a mean cu...